Yad Vashem Collections - Movies

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עדויות ניצולים מגטו לודז' שתועדו במסגרת גנזך קידוש השם, מכון לתיעוד מחקר והנצחה. העדויות עוסקות בנושאי חיי דת בגטו, מסירות נפש, מצוקת רעב, שמירת כשרות, אמונה, משתתפים: אסתר בורשטיין, נכדת הרב משה מנחם סגל, רבה של לודז' ר' פנחס וינדרבוים חנה אייבשיץ ר' אברהם פאלוך אסתר פליטנשטיין

Director : ח. קורנגוט

Production Year : 2007

Duration : 28

Language : Hebrew

In the Warmth of The Holy Fire

During the horrible years of the Holocaust, God sent down the wonderful figure of the Admor from Pisczina. His entire family perished in the Ghetto but he continued to lead until he died. This film introduces us to one of his last students, Haim Kaner.

Director : זאביק הראל

Production Year : 2007

Duration : 20

Language : Hebrew

Itzhak Elhanan Gibralter - Moral Dilemmas

A short documentry bringing to the scren the testiimony of Rabbi Itzhak elhana Gibraltar about moral dillemas he had during the Death March, regarding the copmmandment Honor thy Father

Director : Liran Atzmor

Production Year : 2008

Duration : 5

Language : Hebrew

Kovno Ghetto - Religious Life in Slobodka

A short documentary film. This film deals with Tfaith in the Kaunas (Kovno) ghetto and tells the story of the Slovotka Yeshiva (Knesset of Israel) and its students. The movie focuses on the study of Judaism and on the observance of prayers and mitzvos in public. The yeshiva, which was a center of attraction for many young people from all over Lithuania and especially from the countryside, was virtually closed at the beginning of the war. But its leaders and students who remained in Kaunas continued study and prayer frameworks. Among the main figures was Rabbi Grozinski - rabbi of the yeshiva. The film...

Director : Itay Ken-Tor

Production Year : 2008

Duration : 9

Language : Hebrew

Rabbi Sinai Adler - Moral Dilemmas

Documentary film that brings the testimony of Rabbi Sinai Adler about the rabbinical dilemmas he witnessed at the camp.

Director : Itay Ken-Tor

Production Year : 2008

Duration : 4

Language : Hebrew

Keeping the Connection - Mitzvah of Tefillin

Documentary film presenting stories of spiritual resistance achieved by keeping the commandment of "Tefillin" despite the Nazi prohibition, under the hellish conditions of the ghettos, concentration camps and death marches. Includes archival footage and still photographs. Witnesses: Sinai Adler, Rabbi Pinchas Menachem Joskowicz, Eliyahu Hermann, Moshe Porat, Nehemiah Scheingott, and others.

Director : Anat Maskanes

Duration : 45

Language : Hebrew